CHICAGO: Bruce Arena, called upon last November to replace Jurgen Klinsmann as coach of the United States, resigned Friday, three days after the Americans failed to qualify for next year’s World Cup in Russia...
The 66-year-old Arena, who guided the US team into the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals and also coached the squad into the 2006 World Cup, said failing to reach the World Cup for the first time since 1986 was a “major...
Banned outfit Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) has sought to enter the political sphere by launching the Milli Muslim League — a new political party — on Monday...
Saifullah Khalid, a religious scholar and longtime official of the group, is president of the newly-formed Milli Muslim League party
Barack Obama is returning to the political arena for the first time in months after keeping a low profile and avoiding direct confrontation with his White House successor...
WITH elections in sight, major political parties are busy mobilising the masses ...
MANCHESTER: Salman Abedi, the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in an attack in Manchester on Monday, was a university dropout with “proven” links to the militant Islamic State group...
Born to a devoutly Muslim Libyan family in Britain’s third biggest city, officials said he was known to British security services and Financial Times reported he had turned to radical Islam
In a historic decision on Thursday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted Afghanistan and Ireland full membership, putting them in an elite group of 12 sides permitted to compete in the longest form of the game...
They first played among the sport’s minnows until gaining One-day International status seven years ago, and in June 2013, the ICC granted Afghanistan associate membership, the second tier behind the Test-playing...
HAMILTON: Brendon McCullum’s One-day International career ended on Monday with the win over Australia, though the legacy of the aggressive right-hander is likely to have a much longer effect on the sport in New Zealand...
The New Zealand captain, who made his debut against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January, 2002, is retiring from all internationals after the second Test against Steve Smith’s side in Christchurch
RIO DE JANEIRO: French gymnast Samir Ait Said landed awkwardly on a vault, and a sickening snap echoed throughout the arena...
MINGORA: Key political leaders including Shahbaz Sharif, Imran Khan, Bilawal Bhutto, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Pervez Musharraf and Amir Muqam on Monday filed nomination papers in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to contest the coming general elections...
PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif’s nomination papers were filed for NA-3 Swat-II by Zeyad Khan and Rana Asadullah Khan
BANGKOK: The Asia-Pacific is no one’s backyard and should not become an arena for a big power contest, China’s President Xi Jinping said in written remarks on Thursday, calling on the world to reject any cold war mentality...
“We should follow a path of openness and inclusiveness,” he said in the speech, which was provided by organisers, adding the region should not turn into “an arena for big power contest...
LAHORE: Admitting that the ‘system’ was failing to allow capable people become part of political mechanism, former premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi regretted on Saturday how politicians had been disqualified and barred from taking part in active politics, while both the judiciary and establishment influenced politics in the country...
The ex-premier and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader expressed these views at a session of the Lahore...
KARACHI: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) has “temporarily” suspended the membership of Express and issued a show-cause notice to the media network for alleged tempering with viewership ratings through employees of a rating company, Medialogic...
Moreover, in order to ensure absolute neutrality in this regard, the PBA board has – as per the PBA rules – temporarily suspended membership of Express pending the show-cause...
PARIS: International police agency Interpol voted on Wednesday to include Palestine as a member state, in a new boost to Palestinian efforts for international recognition and influence amid long-stalled negotiations with Israel for full statehood...
Interpol announced the inclusion of the “State of Palestine” as well as the Solomon Islands on Twitter and its website on Wednesday after a vote by its general assembly in Beijing
Merkel said she would discuss with EU counterparts if “we can end these membership talks”, adding: “I don't see (Turkey) ever joining and I had never believed that it would happen...
”Her strong stance against Turkey appeared to steal the show from Schulz, who had minutes earlier called for an end to the EU membership talks...
LONDON: Britons voted on Thursday in a knife-edge general election that could put their country’s membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland...